Collected Poems by John Betjeman
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Collected Poems
Summary
Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared and has now sold over two million copies. This edition includes for the first time Uncollected Poems (the last of the individual volumes not included in the previous edition and also two additional unpublished poems).
Collected Poems Summary
Collected Poems Reviews
'John Betjeman brings back to poetry a sense of dramatic urgency it had all but lost.' Philip Larkin; 'It would be difficult to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling.' Punch
About John Betjeman
John Betjeman was born in London on 28 August 1906. He was educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1931 his first book of poems, 'Mount Zion', was published by an old Oxford friend, Edward James. His second book was 'Ghastly Good Taste', a commentary on architecture, published in 1934. He was knighted in 1969 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. John Betjeman died on 19 May 1984 at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and was buried at the nearby church of St Enodoc
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GOR001719897
9780719560309
0719560306
Collected Poems by John Betjeman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Murray Press
20011026
417
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